WATCH: How to Get Hailee Steinfeld’s Rocker Girl Hairstyle

Hailee Steinfeld looked like the epitome of a cool rocker girl when she headed to the MTV Video Music Awards this year in her cool Balmain multi-hued mini dress. But what really set her look over the edge was her half-up, half-down twisted braid hairstyle courtesy of celebrity hairstylist Mark Townsend.

“She really is her own person and her personality comes out in her look,” the Dove celebrity stylist tells PeopleStyle of the 19-year-old’s look. Turns out, he came up with the idea by combining two previous looks he created for his other star clients — the braids of Mary-Kate Olsen with the mohawk of Dakota Johnson.

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“There was a little bit of an influence from a faux Mohawk kind of updo I did on Dakota Johnson in 2014,” he says. “So I kind of recreated that on top of Hailee’s look.” As for the braided bottom portion, Steinfeld noticed it from the look Townsend did on Mary-Kate Olsen at this year’s Met Gala and requested it. “I just incorporated it, and I made it right for her and the event she was going to,” Townsend says.

So, how to recreate such a cool hairstyle? Townsend shows us exactly how in the video above, part of our “How It’s Done” video series (watch it above to get the full step-by-step!).